Improved shoe-knife



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M. E. HALL, or srulNegPnNNsYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 95,470, dated October 5, 1869.

IMPRovED SHOE-KNIFE.

The `Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To allauhom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, M. E. HALL, of Spring, in: the county of CraWford,-State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Shoemakers Tool, called an Edger; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, refer ence being had to the accompanying drawings, and letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature and object of my improvement consist in providing a suitable hand-tool for channelling boots and shoes, whereby the work is performed with greater speed and uniformity, and all danger of injury to the leather, by slipping of the common knife now in use,

is avoided.

In theaecompanying drawings- A represents a handle, of wood or metal.

B, a head, of metal, with a notch in the end I", and a triangular-shaped slot H, cut from the angle of notch F, through the bottom of head B.

C is an arc, of metal, passing through head B, Vand set or adjusted by a sct-serew D.

E is a'knife, fastened in a notch in the lower end of arc C; Y It is held in its place and adjusted by set screw-G, its point passing through slot H at F, and Iproject-ing therefrom according as it may be adjusted.

, The peculiar shape of slot H permits the knife E to be adjusted at any desired angle, thus regulating the cutting of the channel in the soleof the boot or shoe, as it may be desired. 1

This mode of adjusting the knife is preferred to any other, as it obviates the necessity for attaching the: knife to a holder connected with an eccentric or similar device for altering its position. I claimas my inventionvThe triangular slot H in head B, in combination with knife E and arc C, substantially as andffor the purpose described.

M. E. HALL'.

Witnesses:

A. B. Riom/1on1), lion REISINGER. 

